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10 year old Zahra had beaten the odds and survived cancer twice. She had fought hard for her chance to grow up; her chance to do amazing things in this world. But all that was taken away the moment Elisa Fairchild entered her life.

This is the story of Zahra Baker.

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This is the story of the Eastburn Family murders and the trials of Timothy Hennis.

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‘Three Trials for Murder’ by Nicholas Schmidle  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/three-trials-for-murder

Wikipedia

Makeup & Murder Podcast

Based on the Evidence Podcast

Crime Hounds Podcast

DEPENDAsplaining Podcast

True Crime Brewery Podcast

Military Murder Podcast

Generation Why Podcast

Serial Napper Podcast

The Criminally Obsessed Podcast

Partners N Crime Podcast

Innocent Victims by Scott Whisnant

In early February of 2012, Colleen Margaret Povey was in the final days of her breast cancer battle. As her family surrounded her hospital bedside, her eyes remained fixed on the door, desperately searching for the faces of her daughter and granddaughter whom she hadn’t seen in nearly three and a half years.

As Colleen’s body became weaker, she squeezed her husband Scott’s hand and asked; ‘Is Karlie and Khandalyce here yet?’

These were Colleen Povey’s final words, and within hours she passed away at the age of just 44.

This is the heartbreaking story of 20-year-old Karlie Pearce-Stevenson, and her 2-year-old daughter Khandalyce Pearce.

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SOURCES

Vile Files Podcast: Ep12 19th Oct 2020

True Crime Island Podcast

Murder in the Land of Oz Podcast

Australian True Crime Podcast

SMH https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/gruesome-details-revealed-into-how-mother-and-daughter-died-at-the-hands-of-daniel-holdom-20180928-p506qv.html

SBS News https://www.sbs.com.au/news/suitcase-girl-daughter-of-belanglo-woman

Express Digest https://expressdigest.com/killer-daniel-james-holdom-pens-twisted-letter-from-behind-bars-at-new-south-wales-prison/

Cold Case Investigations by Xanthe Mallett

Web Sleuths https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/aus-khandalyce-kiara-pearce-wynarka-and-mum-karli-media-timeline-no-discussion.292447/page-3

Across the US, intimate homicides account for approximately 9% of all murders nationwide, and while we hear accounts mainly of the cases involving victims that are women, violence against men and mariticide can quite often be less talked about. Mariticide is the killing of one’s husband, boyfriend or male intimate partner, and although a few cases have dominated headlines over the past 15 years or so, this has been due to the antics of the killer, while the victims in these cases remain relatively unknown. Good examples of this are the cases of Jodi Arias, who shot and killed Travis Alexander on June the 4th 2008, and that of Shayna Huber who claimed self-defense after shooting and killing Ryan Poston in October of 2012.

But there is one case that I came across that I had never heard of before, and I wanted this man's story to be heard.

This is the story of Matthew Gailie.

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SOURCES:

Accident, Suicide, Murder: S1E8 ‘Finger on the Trigger’ May 2019

Oxygen.com

The Times Leader

Seattle Times

Wikipedia

LuzerneCounty.org

Case Text: Commonwealth v. Alinsky

Research Gate: article upload by Isabella Merzagora

Law.justia.com : Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Jessica Lynn Alinsky

The Psychiatric Autopsy: Its Legal Application by Otto L. Bendheim. M.D.

Find A Grave

With modern advancements such as DNA profiling and high-tech computerized systems, the work of the Forensic Investigator has become both more complex and more straight forward. Straight forward in the sense that these days DNA can quickly incriminate or exclude someone from an investigation. But before the introduction of advanced DNA technology, forensic investigators had to rely more than ever on their own ability in locating, analyzing and interpreting the evidence that had been left at the scene of a crime and what had been taken away; which more often than not could be of very little value in obtaining that crucial link between victim and perpetrator that’s needed to secure a conviction.

But then there are the rare crime scenes that contain such an overwhelming amount of forensic evidence, that even before the use of DNA, it can result in a quick open and shut case.

This is the story of 17 year old, Florence Hildreth.

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FIND LAW https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-supreme-court/1774484.html

A Jental Heart https://ajentleheart.wordpress.com/2018/05/20/1759/

US Courts https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/03/27/10-99004.pdf

Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130645666/florence-yvette-hildreth

Lipstick Alley https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/his-niece-paid-the-price-for-her-uncle-feeling-sorry-for-an-unemployed-man.485891/

Gov Info https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-caed-1_95-cv-05309/pdf/USCOURTS-caed-1_95-cv-05309-23.pdf

cncpunishment.com http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?88-Rodney-Berryman-Sr-California-Death-Row/page2&s=6de0d752be6fe2f10db46866c54d48b1

Incognito Forensic Foundation https://ifflab.org/

When 17-year-old Gabe Meyer fails to return to his Innisfail, Queensland home for dinner, it is suggested that maybe he'd be taken by a crocodile. But his parents Sherrie and Doug feel that something far more sinister is wrong.

This is the story of Gabriel Meyer.

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Forensic Investigators S2E4

Murder Calls S1E4

Wikipeadia

Nine News

Google Maps

Find A Grave

When a young woman fails to return home after a night out celebrating her 22nd birthday in Hobart, Tasmania, detectives must wait 13 years and for the advancement of forensic science to help convict her killer.

This is the story of Amanda Carter.

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wikipedia

Cold Case Files by Liz Porter

abc.net.au

The Age

Find A Grave

police.tas.gov.au

examiner.com

Forensic Investigators S02E04

Crime and violence committed against any person within the sex industry is generally seen as being ‘less important’ and not news worthy, but in Brisbane, Queensland, when two street workers were found brutally murdered, police wasted no time in setting up a task force and were determined to catch their killer before he could strike again.

This is the story of Jasmin Crathern and Julie McColl.

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Gladstone Observer

Courier Mail

Reddit

Whooshkaa.com

Daily Motion

After the arrest of three men for their involvement in 2 bank robberies, detectives from Tyler, Texas had no idea that they had just set in motion the series of events that would lead to solving the murder of 80-year-old J.C Levassar in 1994, and the 1991 disappearance of 8-year-old Chad Choice.

This is their story.

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Sources:

Cold Case Files S1E25

upi.com

kltv.com

casetext.com

rave.ca

findagrave.com

Between 1979 and 1991, 5 girls, Tara Cossey, Amber Swartz-Garcia, Michaela Garecht, Ilene Misheloff and Nikki Campbell, vanished and have not been found to this day. After the announcement last month of the arrest of the man believed to be responsible for Michaela's abduction, we have decided to shine the light on not only her story, but also those of the other missing East Bay Area girls.

This is their story..

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eastbaytimes.com 

npr.org 

ktvu.com 

deaniepeters-missingangels.blogspot.com